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Constitution Day

On Friday, September 16, 2022, the American Founding Group and the School of Public and International Affairs will host a celebration of Constitution Day. The centerpiece of these festivities is a lecture entitled “Reflections of a Would-be Framer” by Sanford V. Levinson, Professor of Government and W. St. John Garwood and W. St. John Garwood, Jr. Centennial Chair in Law at the University of Texas Law School.

Dirty History Workshop: Hiromi Mizuno

Faculty and graduate students from any department are invited to join us to discuss the paper "Fertilizing the Green De/Revolution: Japan, the US, and Cold War Asia," with its author, Hiromi Mizuno, Associate Professor, University of Minnesota.

The draft paper will be distributed to the Dirty History listserv two weeks in advance. If you'd like to get on the Dirty History listserv to receive the papers, email srnelson@uga.edu.

Dirty History Book Talk:The Long Land War: The Global Struggle for Occupancy Rights, Jo Guldi

Join us March 17. Jo Guldi, Associate Professor, Southern Methodist University, will be giving a talk about her new book, The Long Land War: The Global Struggle for Occupancy Rights (Yale University Press, 2022).

This free and public event is presented by the Dirty History Workshop and the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts as part of the UGA Humanities Festival.

Dirty History Workshop: Robert Ferguson

Faculty and graduate students from any department are invited to join us to discuss the paper "Impulse and Consequence: The Commodity Credit Corporation and The Rise of Agribusiness in the Cotton South," with Robert Ferguson, PhD student, University of Georgia.

The draft paper will be distributed to the Dirty History listserv two weeks in advance. If you'd like to get on the Dirty History listserv to receive the papers, email srnelson@uga.edu.

Dirty History Workshop: Jeremy Zallen

Faculty and graduate students from any department are invited to join us to discuss the paper "Saltwater Marronage: Blubbery Circuits of Freedom in the Age of Revolution," with its author, Jeremy Zallen, Associate Professor, Lafayette College.

The draft paper will be distributed to the Dirty History listserv two weeks in advance. If you'd like to get on the Dirty History listserv to receive the papers, email srnelson@uga.edu.

Dirty History Workshop: Shaw Bridges

Faculty and graduate students from any department are invited to join us to discuss the paper "'They perceived us before we did them': Pacific Whaling Grounds as Workscapes," with Shaw Bridges, PhD student, University of Georgia.

The draft paper will be distributed to the Dirty History listserv two weeks in advance. If you'd like to get on the Dirty History listserv to receive the papers, email srnelson@uga.edu.

LTTM: How did bananas bring Southeast Asia to the brink of collapse during WWII?

This installment of the Department of History’s undergraduate lecture series features Dr. Kalyani Ramnath. Professor Ramnath joined the history faculty this year, so now you can look forward to her courses on the history modern South Asia, legal history, and law and empire. In addition to her PhD in history, Ramnath holds a B.A.,LL.B. (Hons.) (J.D. equivalent) from the National Law School of India University and a Master of Laws (LL.M.) from the Yale Law School.

Free Admission. Free history. Free Chik-fil-A for lunch!

An FYO event.

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